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Heartening to see so many "This is an apple, that is an orange" comments. Spot on folks!

Yes, exactly. The issue detection step isn't particularly well-suited to a LLM, as it will tell you itself. The issues can be established deterministically by examining the Cloud r…

It's not that sophisticated ;-) There's command editing using readline, result pagination using less and I output links to the reports and the Cloud console using ANSI HTTP link es…

I think in many real-life cases it's a mix - for example impure code that deals with the outside world to set up the data needed for the pure "core" of the app to run over.

You could always read the docs? https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=clpfd-integer-a... https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=!/0

I've just rolled out an internal SWI Prolog app that is similar to one linked to elsewhere in the thread [1]. We have a large Cloud estate with 10s of thousands of resources in it.…

I get what he's saying but I think it's overstated. I'd categorise his list as "Things to be careful with" not "Coding horrors". For example, "The primary means to make your progra…

Mostly overblown.

Name me a new bit of tech that hasn't been hyped beyond reasonable bounds. And yes, this is one of the worst examples. But saying it doesn't have its uses isn't reasonable either.

Go figure it out, it will be a useful challenge for you.

I'd tell you to read it again, but you seem to be struggling.

I'm not going to repeat myself, I've already explained the context to you - funny how you seem to have ignored that. If you want to find out, do the experiment yourself.

You clearly missed the "The truth is somewhere in between" bit.

Picking phrases from what I said and deliberately misquoting them out of context does not make you right.

"exactly this inspection" != "what does it exactly do"

Nicely put. I haven't seen anyone say that the introspection abilities of LLMs are up to much, but claiming that it's completely impossible to get a glimpse behind the curtain is u…

Yes of course there's a risk it may still be incorrect but querying the LLM with the limited facilities it provides for introspection is more likely to have at least some connectio…

I don't owe you anything. If you want to go find out, go do it yourself. You could even ask a LLM to help you if you,like...

People have applied "think" to the actions of software for decades. Of course it LLM's don't "think" in the human sense, but "What the output of the model indicates in an approxima…

"Not in the slightest" is an overreach, the paper the second level down from that link doesn't really support the conclusion in the blog post - the paper is much more nuanced. Are …

> It would be interesting to see one of these evals and how it generated the score, to work out whether it is in fact arbitrary or based on some scale of points. So go repeat the e…

Is that based on your "deep understanding" of how LLMs work or have you actually tried it? If you watch the execution trace of a Skill in action, you can see that it's doing exactl…

They aren't arbitrary, as I said earlier I got the LLM to de a detailed analysis first, then summarise. If I was doing this "properly" for something I was doing myself I'd go throu…

No of course you wouldn't because LLMs are nondeterministic. But the scores would likely be in the same ballpark. The scores I posted are the result of a much more detailed analysi…

I wouldn't go that far but the only way I've found so far of getting a reasonable insight into why a LLM has chosen to do something is to ask it.